I'm gonna guess a piece of clothing got stuck on a branch and he got sucked in. My dad used to do that kind of work back in the day and it seems like he'd have a new scar every month. Never got stuck in a wood chipper but he had a fight with a stump grinder once. Lucky he didn't end up with a stump.

I used to work with these things everyday. And not those little ones, either- these were the big diesel-powered V8 jobs. The cutting disc was 6' tall. You REALLY had to be on your toes when using it. It's the kind of machine that WILL, at that one moment when you're drifting off, perhaps thinking about your girlfriend's ass or that cold beer you're gonna have at 5 'o clock, catch you and potentially kill you.

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One day I loaded an admittedly large branch into the chute. The thing was just too wide and I should have known better. The rotating drums caught it and it shot upwards, the end of it catching me right in the chin. I saw stars, looked up at the trees and went down like the proverbial oak tree. I woke up a few seconds later, got a band-aid from the first aid kit and continued on. Sad thing is, no one noticed. My feet could have been sticking out of the chute, blood, bone and guts spraying at high speed into the chipper truck, and no one would have been the wiser.

Yeah- the tree cutting/arborist industry isn't very well-regulated. Or at least it wasn't when I was in it.

darch:I used to work with these things everyday. And not those little ones, either- these were the big diesel-powered V8 jobs. The cutting disc was 6' tall. You REALLY had to be on your toes when using it. It's the kind of machine that WILL, at that one moment when you're drifting off, perhaps thinking about your girlfriend's ass or that cold beer you're gonna have at 5 'o clock, catch you and potentially kill you.

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One day I loaded an admittedly large branch into the chute. The thing was just too wide and I should have known better. The rotating drums caught it and it shot upwards, the end of it catching me right in the chin. I saw stars, looked up at the trees and went down like the proverbial oak tree. I woke up a few seconds later, got a band-aid from the first aid kit and continued on. Sad thing is, no one noticed. My feet could have been sticking out of the chute, blood, bone and guts spraying at high speed into the chipper truck, and no one would have been the wiser.

Yeah- the tree cutting/arborist industry isn't very well-regulated. Or at least it wasn't when I was in it.

So, no guards or safety doors or railings or anything on those machines?

strangeluck:darch: I used to work with these things everyday. And not those little ones, either- these were the big diesel-powered V8 jobs. The cutting disc was 6' tall. You REALLY had to be on your toes when using it. It's the kind of machine that WILL, at that one moment when you're drifting off, perhaps thinking about your girlfriend's ass or that cold beer you're gonna have at 5 'o clock, catch you and potentially kill you.

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One day I loaded an admittedly large branch into the chute. The thing was just too wide and I should have known better. The rotating drums caught it and it shot upwards, the end of it catching me right in the chin. I saw stars, looked up at the trees and went down like the proverbial oak tree. I woke up a few seconds later, got a band-aid from the first aid kit and continued on. Sad thing is, no one noticed. My feet could have been sticking out of the chute, blood, bone and guts spraying at high speed into the chipper truck, and no one would have been the wiser.

Yeah- the tree cutting/arborist industry isn't very well-regulated. Or at least it wasn't when I was in it.

So, no guards or safety doors or railings or anything on those machines?

Even the commercial chippers consumers can rent have no real safeguards. It's just an open maw. The only concession to safety is that you really need to reach in to get your hand in there, which makes people think twice about "oh the branch is stuck, I'll just reach in and wiggle it a little..."

We used to remove any and all safety equipment so we could work more efficiently. It was an open secret. We only had two on the job deaths, and those were due to stupidity ( turning machinery on while it was being worked on).

I lived in a shiatty apartment complex in Phoenix a few years back. One day, coming home from work, I see the landscaping crew trimming trees in the complex. Some random person walking by must have decided that there was no time like the present for suicide, and threw himself headfirst into the industrial chipper that was pointed into the back of a box truck.

wickedgrin:I lived in a shiatty apartment complex in Phoenix a few years back. One day, coming home from work, I see the landscaping crew trimming trees in the complex. Some random person walking by must have decided that there was no time like the present for suicide, and threw himself headfirst into the industrial chipper that was pointed into the back of a box truck.

I guess they really really wanted to die. Not just seeking help and attention like suicide attempts via drug overdoses and the like. Can't think of a worse way to die.

strangeluck:darch: I used to work with these things everyday. And not those little ones, either- these were the big diesel-powered V8 jobs. The cutting disc was 6' tall. You REALLY had to be on your toes when using it. It's the kind of machine that WILL, at that one moment when you're drifting off, perhaps thinking about your girlfriend's ass or that cold beer you're gonna have at 5 'o clock, catch you and potentially kill you.

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One day I loaded an admittedly large branch into the chute. The thing was just too wide and I should have known better. The rotating drums caught it and it shot upwards, the end of it catching me right in the chin. I saw stars, looked up at the trees and went down like the proverbial oak tree. I woke up a few seconds later, got a band-aid from the first aid kit and continued on. Sad thing is, no one noticed. My feet could have been sticking out of the chute, blood, bone and guts spraying at high speed into the chipper truck, and no one would have been the wiser.

Yeah- the tree cutting/arborist industry isn't very well-regulated. Or at least it wasn't when I was in it.

So, no guards or safety doors or railings or anything on those machines?

So, there are about 11 deaths a year by these machines. That's more than 10 times the number of deaths caused by automatic weapons. There isn't anything these machines can do that cannot be accomplished with other tools. When is the Libtard Elite force going to come out for banning these things?

Just once I'd like to steal a finger from the morgue and bury it in a pile of woodchips. Think of the chaos as they not only have to dig up that pile but have to backtrack where they came from and check the original provider and all other delivery locations searching for possible other parts. BWA-HA-HA!

Benjimin_Dover:strangeluck: darch: I used to work with these things everyday. And not those little ones, either- these were the big diesel-powered V8 jobs. The cutting disc was 6' tall. You REALLY had to be on your toes when using it. It's the kind of machine that WILL, at that one moment when you're drifting off, perhaps thinking about your girlfriend's ass or that cold beer you're gonna have at 5 'o clock, catch you and potentially kill you.

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One day I loaded an admittedly large branch into the chute. The thing was just too wide and I should have known better. The rotating drums caught it and it shot upwards, the end of it catching me right in the chin. I saw stars, looked up at the trees and went down like the proverbial oak tree. I woke up a few seconds later, got a band-aid from the first aid kit and continued on. Sad thing is, no one noticed. My feet could have been sticking out of the chute, blood, bone and guts spraying at high speed into the chipper truck, and no one would have been the wiser.

Yeah- the tree cutting/arborist industry isn't very well-regulated. Or at least it wasn't when I was in it.

So, no guards or safety doors or railings or anything on those machines?

So, there are about 11 deaths a year by these machines. That's more than 10 times the number of deaths caused by automatic weapons. There isn't anything these machines can do that cannot be accomplished with other tools. When is the Libtard Elite force going to come out for banning these things?